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Even though the Latin American novel was never the West's 'Other,' the new Handbook published by Oxford University Press does a marvelous job of producing a sorely needed remapping of [...]

LEONARDO VALENCIA Ensayos en caída libre Bogotá. Planeta/UASB. 2023. 420 pages. DURING THE NINETEENTH and twentieth centuries, Latin American novelists were a constant presence in the press, thereby acquiring prominence [...]

SARAH E. L. BOWSKILL The Politics of Literary Prestige: Prizes and Spanish American Literature New York. Bloomsbury Academic. 2022.215 pages. SARAH E. L. BOWSKILL'S succinct study deals properly with the [...]

JAVIER VÁSCONEZ El coleccionista de sombras Valencia, Spain. Pre-Textos. 2021. 218 pages. STOP ME IF you've read this: a Latin American writer puts his own name within quotation marks to [...]

The Critic as Amateur Ed. Saikat Majumdar & Aarthi Vadde New York. Bloomsbury. 2019. 292 pages. EACH OF THE TEN ESSAYS in this splendid, exhaustively researched, and timely collection--buoyed by [...]

Marcelo Báez Meza Nunca más Amarilis: Bioficción definitiva de Margara Sáenz Quito, Ecuador. Libresa. 2018. 254 pages. This roller coaster of a 'biofiction' is a report to an academy that [...]

Leonardo Valencia La escalera de Bramante Bogotá. Seix Barral/Planeta. 2019. 621 pages. MUCH INK IS SPENT on bidding the Great Latin American Novel, speciously fused with 'total novels.' Vargas Llosa [...]

César Aira Artforum Trans. Katherine Silver. New York. New Directions. 2020. 80 pages. IT IS NO COINCIDENCE that this narrative exercise is published after César Aira's participation at MoMA's 2017 [...]

Leonardo Valencia Kazbek Trans. Hillary Gulley. Bloomington, Indiana. Autumn Hill Books. 2020. 113 pages. IT IS COMMON for Latin American writers to be introduced to readers of other languages with [...]

The post-1968 Latin American writers are equally adept in their narrative and nonfiction, but the latter is less known. Will H. Corral discusses the larger context of that condition and [...]

César AiraPrins Barcelona. Literatura Random House. 2018. 137 pages.Depending on who keeps count and what his various publishers do, Prins is César Airas 101st book and 71st novel, and [...]

IN MAY 2006 the newspaper La Tercera asked writers and critics to select the most notable Chilean books of the last quarter century. Roberto Bolano's 1998 novel, Los detectives salvajes, [...]

Juan Carlos Chirinos Venezuela: Biografta de un sucidio Madrid. La Huerta Grande Editorial. 2017. 139 pages. Juan Carlos Chirinos concludes Venezuela wishing that his book might be the portrayal of [...]

Adam Kirsch. The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century . New York. Columbia Global Reports. 2016.112 pages. WLT readers are attuned to the complexities of what makes [...]

Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature. New York. Columbia University Press. 2015. 322 pages. Constantly aware of her semantically loaded and ambitious [...]

América Latina y la literatura mundial: Mercado editorial, redes globales y la invención de un continente. Ed. Gesine Müller & Dunia Gras Miravet. Madrid/ Frankfurt. Iberoamericana/Vervuert. 2015.374 pages. Balancing native [...]

Christopher Dominguez Michael. Octavio Paz en su siglo. Mexico City. Aguilar. 2014. 651 pages. This magisterial biography--already published in an abridged French version with an English one forthcoming--is the painstaking [...]